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Drug shortage to force closure of Iranian operating rooms
The head of the Anesthesia and Special Care Association of Iran has warned that a number of operating rooms in various Iranian hospitals are facing closure due to a shortage of anesthesia. Mohammad Mehdi Ghiamat said: "With the approach of the New Year holidays, only emergency cases can be taken to operating rooms, and the situation for other patients will remain unclear." - 3/13/13
Iran Parliament Calls For End To Medical Drug Delays
Iranian Parliament has called on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to immediately free up the drugs that have been stalled in customs and allow them entry into the market. Iran has been facing serious drug shortages in recent months due to a lack of foreign currency, as international sanctions on Iranian banks have restricted financial transactions and the import of medical drugs. - 3/9/13
Blocking Medicine to Iran
Patients in Iran are dying of treatable diseases because of shortages in life-saving medicines. The past year has been nothing short of catastrophic for the Iranian health-care sector: Imports from American and European drug makers in 2012 were down by an estimated 30 percent since 2011, and they continue to fall. -Siamak Namazi, NY Times - 3/4/13
Photos: The first successful hand transplant surgery in Middle East performed in Tehran
Members of the Tehran's 15th Khordad Hospital surgery team have successfully completed hand transplant surgery during 8.5 hours of breathtaking procedure. "In this transplant operation, the wrist of a 25 years old young brain dead person was transplanted to a 37 years old man who had lost his hand 6 years ago in an accident while using a meat grinder." - 2/28/13
Iran ranks fifth in orthopedic sciences
Head of Iranian Orthopaedic Association Gholamali Akasheh Friday said Iran has attained the fifth international place in the field of orthopedic sciences and it is among the superior Asian countries in this medical field. - 2/24/13
Iran is cooperating in global Human Proteome Project
A researcher of Royan Research Institute said here Saturday Iran is cooperating with 19 developed countries in the global Human Proteome Project (HPP) in the fields of medicine and science. - 2/23/13
Medicine at Center of Debate as Iran Sanctions Tighten
Earlier this month, the U.S. government announced tighter sanctions on Iran. In particular, the actions would further limit Iran's access to oil revenues "by restricting Iran's ability to use oil revenue held in foreign financial institutions as well as preventing repatriation of those funds to Iran." -Negar Mortazavi, VOA - 2/14/13
Report: Sanctions Are Primary Cause of Iranian Medicine Shortage
Sanctions imposed by the West are the leading cause of medicine shortages in Iran according to a report published by the Woodrow Wilson Center. While the report points to structural problems in Iran's pharmaceutical sector as well as mismanagement and corruption by the Iranian government as contributing factors, it determines that these are far outweighed by the consequences of American and European sanctions. -Nadia Hakim - 2/13/13
U.S. Iran Sanctions Exempt Food, Medicine, Remittances
According to a February 6 press release from the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), under U.S. law the sale and export of nearly all types of food and medicine, as well as basic medical supplies, are "broadly authorized," and other types of U.S. humanitarian exports can gain authorization through a license from OFAC. -IIP Digital - 2/11/13
US Medicine Exports to Iran Drops By 50 Percent: Official Data
The release of official US statistics came despite the claims by certain American officials that they "have tried to sanction Iran without unduly harming ordinary Iranians, granting licenses, for example, to US companies that wish to export pharmaceuticals, medical devices, food and other humanitarian goods to Iran". - 2/11/13
Iran establishes first umbilical cord blood bank abroad
Iran has launched the first umbilical cord blood bank in collaboration with Royan Research Institute in Iraqi province of Erbil. - 1/28/13
Iranian cancer specialist warns of rising wave
The head of the Iran Cancer Conference says "environmental pollution, rising obesity, a lack of activity and unhealthy living habits" are hitting Iran with a rising wave of cancer cases. - 1/25/13
Photos: Biking for Environment in Qaemshahr
Residents of the city of Qaemshahr in northern Iran held a group cycling event in order to promote clean air and a healthy living. In recent years pollution has been a recurring problem for major cities in Iran, and this a major source of health concerns for the residents. - 1/18/13
Iranian car companies warn of dangerous gas mix
The Association of Iranian Car Manufacturers has warned the Environment Organization that using gasoline that is 35 percent methanol can be seriously harmful to people's health and can also cause car fires. Iran's Oil Ministry previously had announced its plan to produce gasoline that is 35 percent methanol. - 1/17/13
Iran unable to get life-saving drugs due to international sanctions
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians with serious illnesses have been put at imminent risk by the unintended consequences of international sanctions, which have led to dire shortages of life-saving medicines such as chemotherapy drugs for cancer and bloodclotting agents for haemophiliacs. -Guardian - 1/14/13
Iranian drug statistics at all-time high
Iranian police statistics reveal that 652 new drug-related cases are created every day and 30 people are arrested every hour on drug-related charges. The Mehr news agency reported on Saturday January 12 on the unprecedented prevalence of drugs in the country, citing the latest statistics released by the police department. - 1/13/13
Iranian researchers reconstruct defected mandible using brain death bones, cell therapy
Researchers at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences have reconstructed the mandible using bones from brain death patients and stem cells. Dr. Mehdi Gholami, project manager, told Mehr News about the common procedures for mandible reconstruction and added "for the reconstruction of major mandibular defects, usually the hip bone is used which causes problems when walking. - 1/13/13
Iranian MP blames gasoline for cancer rise among children
An Iranian Member of Parliament has warned that the gasoline produced in the country is having many adverse effects on Iranian children, giving rise to numerous forms of cancer at an early age. - 1/9/13
Photos: Cupping and Leeching Alternative Medicine Practices
These photos show the alternative medicine practices of cupping and Leeching in Bojnourd, Iran. Alternative medicine is practiced widely in Iran. In fact, Tehran University of Medical Sciences has a Faculty of Traditional Medicine. Also, there are organizations and websites active in this field including Traditional Iranian Medical Society and the Traditional Iranian Medical Reference Website - 1/7/13
Tehran citizens paying price for failure to address air pollution problem
Heavy smog brought Tehran to a standstill on Saturday, closing government offices, universities, and schools, and consequently disrupting citizens' plans, not to mention the adverse health effects of the situation. - 1/7/13
4460 deaths due to Tehran's air pollution
Hassan Aghajani, an advisor to the Minister of Health, said on Saturday there has been an increase of 30% in heart patients visiting hospitals over the last few days. He said in the last Iranian year, about 4460 deaths in Tehran were due to harmful particles in the air. - 1/5/13
Iranian Police Makes Largest-Ever Morphine Discovery
The Iranian Law Enforcement Police intercepted a large morphine cargo en route from the Southeastern province of Kerman to the country's Western borders and seized over 1.5 tons of morphine. - 1/5/13
Air Pollution Triggers Tehran Shutdown
Officials in Tehran have ordered schools, universities, government offices, and other institutions to close on January 5 because of high air pollution in the Iranian capital. - 1/4/13
A 'modern miracle': Navy vet's arm reattached after workplace injury
Reid's left arm was severed in August of 2011 in a workplace accident in Gilmer, Texas. Seven hours had passed before Reid met Dr. Bardia Amirlak, a UT Southwestern plastic surgeon on-call as part of the hand transplant team. -WFAA - 1/4/13
Iran Keen to Import Drugs from India
According to sources, it is understood the Iranian Health Ministry had expressed its interest to import some 28 different varieties of medicinal drugs ranging from tables, capsules, solutions and injectables of variable quantities from the Indian suppliers. - 1/3/13
Iran's Health Ministry Qualifies 2nd Nano-Based Medicine for Production
Based on the approval of Nanotechnology Committee of Iran's Health Ministry, the second medicine based on nanotechnology was approved for presentation to the market. The medicine, containing nanographite, has been produced under the title Carboncelium Complex by one of the Iranian companies, and it has applications as topical ointment in burn wounds. - 1/2/13
Photos: Tehran's air pollution reaches alarming level
Tehran's emergency air pollution coordination committee held a meeting on Monday to assess the situation and take the measures necessary to reduce pollution. The committee decided to close elementary schools and daycare centers on Tuesday and Wednesday due to heavy air pollution. - 1/1/13
Iran: Supreme Leader advises officials to pay due attention to health sector
Vahid-Dastjerdi, the only women who ever served as a minister since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979, was dismissed shortly after she publicly criticized the government's response to the shortage of vital medicine and said that not enough foreign currency had been allocated for the import of medicine. - 1/1/13
Iranian researchers take giant leap forward prostate and lung cancer treatment
Researchers in Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Unit, have developed a method for prostate and lung cancer treatment through combining nuclear, radio-isotope and nano-technology. - 12/29/12
Iran's Environmental Official Warns Of Rising Cancer Incidence
Massomeh Ebtekar, the head of the Tehran Environmental Committee, announced that patients are being diagnosed with cancer at a younger age. Ebtekar told ILNA: "Air and soil pollution and the effects of [electromagnetic waves] are all contributing to a rise in diseases." - 12/29/12
Iranian Health Minister Dismissed for Critical Remarks
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on December 27 dismissed his only female cabinet minister, Health Minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi, after she criticized her colleagues for failing to provide funds to import vital medicines. - 12/27/12
Infants in full health after PGD at Avicenna Clinic in Tehran
Dr. Mohammad Hussein Modarresi, Geneticist and member of the specialist team at Avicenna Recurrent Abortion Clinic, stated that the first healthy infant was born from parents with thalassemia minor in 2009 via PGD methods, and the second was born in 2011 in Avicenna Subspecialty Clinic, both in full health now. - 12/23/12
Deaths from alcohol soar in Iran
In the past seven months, 102 people have died in Iran due to alcohol poisoning, Iranian media report. - 12/23/12
Environmental leader warns of deaths from pollution
The head of the Environmental and Sustainable Development Organization in Tehran says 45,000 Iranians die each year from complications caused by air pollution all across the country. - 12/22/12
3rd International Conference on Health Tourism opens in Mashhad
The third Conference on Health Tourism in Islamic Courtiers kicked off in Razavi Hospital in the northeastern provincial capital city of Mashhad on Tuesday. - 12/18/12
Iranian scientists use microchips to help spinally impaired walk
Scientists at the Neural Technology Center of the University of Science and Technology of Iran made standing and walking possible for patients with impaired spinal cord by producing a microcomputer. - 12/17/12
Photos: School fire victims in Urmia Hospital
A number of girl students burned in a fire at an elementary school in the village of Shin Abad in the city of Piranshahr, northwestern Iran, on December 5, are receiving medical treatments in Urmia Hospital, West Azerbaijan Province. - 12/12/12
Iran seizes over 10 tons of opium
The Iranian police have seized a large shipment of illicit drugs weighing 11 tons and 39 kilograms in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan after a 36-hour clash with smugglers, the commander of Iran's National Border announced during a press conference on Saturday. - 12/9/12
Iranian Health Minister calls for medication money
The Iranian Health Minister has called on the Central Bank to provide the necessary foreign currency to import urgently needed medical drugs and equipment into the country. - 12/8/12
Iranian NGO receives Red Ribbon Award for AIDS work
The 2012 Red Ribbon Award prize of dlrs 10,000 was handed over to Afraye Sabz Association for its outstanding work in response to HIV at the community level. - 12/6/12
Photos: Tehran shuts schools, offices amid pollution
It's a typical scene these days in Tehran, where air pollution has forced the government to shut down schools, universities and offices for at least two days. Some blame the government for not fulfilling its environmental responsibilities. Others blame dilapidated cars, substandard fuel and polluting industries. - 12/4/12
Figures reveal extent of Iranian sex-change surgeries
State medical records indicate that from 2006 to 2010, 1,366 Iranians acquired permits to undergo sex change operations. - 12/4/12
Photos: Air pollution approaching critical stages in Tehran
The head of Tehran's air-quality control announced on Monday that the capital's air quality has reached the warning stage, and the section of the city known as Shahr Rey, with the most polluted air today, is steps away from reaching emergency levels. - 12/3/12
Iran Unveils Several Achievements in Bank of Biological Compounds
The advancements included a new antibiotic named Persimicin, Persiherbin herbicide, double-vial and single-vial storage ampoules and different weeds to maintain microorganism. - 11/15/12
Iranian boy dies due to medication shortage
A 15-year-old hemophiliac boy has reportedly died in Iran due to a shortage of medication in the country. - 11/14/12
Iran, Denmark launch cooperation in controlling diabetes
Chancellor of Tehran Medical Sciences University Bagher Larijani said Wednesday that the university signed a cooperation agreement on prevention and curbing diabetes with a complex procedure of treating the disease in the EU. - 11/14/12
MP raises alarm over medical drugs shortage
An Iranian MP announced today that the country's shortage of medical drugs has reached a critical point, and reserves will be depleted within two months. - 11/11/12
Iranian specialists highly capable for tissue, organ transplant: Dr. Katayoun Najafizadeh
Zanjan, IRAN- Head of the Iran Transplant Organ Procurement (Iran-TOP) Dr. Katayoun Najafizadeh said on Saturday that Iranian specialists have necessary knowledge and expertise for tissue and organ transplant. - 11/10/12
Iranian medical official chides UN over sanctions
The head of Iran's Medical Council has written to Ban Ki-moon to protest against the UN General Secreatry's "silence" in view of medical sanctions being imposed on Iran. - 11/8/12
Tehran to host 1st International basic, clinical neuroscience congress
The First International Basic and Clinical Neuroscience Congress 2012 will be held at Tehran University's Razi Convention Center, from November 7-9. - 11/6/12
Iran's hospitals feel pain of sanctions
Though the Western-backed sanctions are not meant to target the nation's healthcare industry, the Foundation for Special Diseases says the restrictions have made it more difficult to import medicine and equipment into the country. -Al Jazeera - 11/4/12
Iran accuses West of seeding public discontent
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told the Mehr news agency: "Sanctions on medical drugs, which are against all accepted international laws, are aimed at putting our people under pressure and creating social and general discontent." - 11/3/12
American and European patients come to Iran for infertility treatment
Dr. Abotaleb Saremi, in an interview with the Mehr News Agency, said that the cost of infertility based on in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment is much cheaper in Iran than in the U.S. and Europe, therefore patients from these countries tend to choose Iran for treatment. - 10/19/12
Iran sanctions putting patients' lives in danger
Head of Iran's Charity Foundation for Special Diseases says international sanctions are threatening the lives of 6 million patients suffering from special diseases. - 10/17/12
Iranian Media Say Sanctions Taking Toll On Seriously Ill Patients
Sanctions imposed on Iran over its controversial nuclear activities are said to be taking a toll on the population, including seriously ill patients who find it increasingly difficult to access needed drugs. -Golnaz Esfandiari, RFE - 10/16/12
Iran Health Ministry to study effects of interference waves
Earlier, Health Minister Dastjerdi had said that available research shows no evidence that waves used for jamming satellite signals have any effect on human health. - 10/10/12
World's best neurosurgical center to be built in Tehran
Professor Madjid Samii, the head of the Fifth International Neurosurgery Symposium, announced late on Thursday that the best neurosurgical center in the world will be built in Tehran. - 10/6/12
Mr. Sadjadpour - why don't you do chemotherapy on yourself?
In the many years since my father went ill and I've commuted between Kerman and California, I have seen not only the toll of cancer and alzheimers on my father, but also the toll of repression and sanctions on my homeland. -Kazem Soltani, Kerman, Iran - 9/7/12
In Iran, sanctions take toll on the sick
The tightening of U.S. banking sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program has had an impact on all sectors of the economy but is increasingly hitting vulnerable medical patients as deliveries of medicine and raw materials for Iranian pharmaceutical companies are either stopped or delayed, according to medical experts. -Najmeh Bozorgmehr, Washington Post - 9/5/12
Quake-stricken Iranian children receive drama therapy
Over 2000 quake-stricken children in East Azarbaijan Province received drama therapy through performances arranged by Iran's Portable Theater Center (PTC). - 8/28/12
Health Minister Stresses Iran's Influential Role in World Science, Technology
Iranian Health Minister Marziyeh Vahid Dastjerdi appreciated the country's scientific and medical progress despite the western sanctions against Tehran, and described Iran as one of the powerful states in science and technology. - 8/28/12
Warnings Over Khamenei's Order: Waves of Unhealthy Abortions Coming
The head of Iran's population oversight office at the ministry of health has issued a warning over the growing number of unhealthy abortions in the country. Mohammad Mirzai said there is a wrong perception that by removing the means that are available for abortions, the population of the country will automatically increase. -Mohammad Reza Yazdanpanah - 8/27/12
Iran medics warn against deadly upshot of West sanctions
Iran's medical institutions and societies have warned against the catastrophic repercussions of the West's sanctions on the health of patients grappling with chronic and life-threatening diseases - 8/24/12
Iran: Donors Should Reassess Anti-Drug Funding
United Nations agencies and international donors should immediately freeze financial and other assistance to Iran's drug control programs, Human Rights Watch and Harm Reduction International (HRI) said today. The funding contributes to abusive prosecutions of drug suspects, the groups said. - 8/22/12
12 women's hospitals established in Iran
Minister of Health and Medical Education announced on Tuesday that so far 12 women's hospitals have been established by medical sciences universities across the country including three in Tehran, one in Isfahan, one in Mashhad and one in Shiraz. - 8/21/12
Iran's second bio-implant factory operational by March 2013
The second bio-implant production unit of Iran will come on stream by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 2013) in the city of Shiraz. Iran now is one of the few countries in the world which have access to the bio-implant production technology. - 8/21/12
Iranian universities close nursing to male applicants
Iran's Nursing Association has slammed the decision to restrict university nursing programs to female applicants. - 8/16/12
Sanctions causing drug shortages: Iranian official
The head of Iran's Foundation for Special Diseases has written to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to express concern about shortages in medicine as a result of international sanctions on Iran. - 8/14/12
U.S., EU sanctions endangering lives of Iranian patients: Iranian hemophilia society
The Iranian hemophilia society sent a letter to the president of the World Federation of Hemophilia and the president of the World Health Organization on July 28, warning about the negative effect of sanctions on the health of hemophiliacs in Iran. - 8/13/12
Iranians Struggle to Recover After Powerful Earthquakes
Thousands of people in Iran's East Azerbaijan province are struggling to cope after their homes were destroyed by two powerful earthquakes that struck minutes apart. Iranian TV says that 12 villages were reduced to rubble and 60 more were badly damaged by the quakes, which measured 6.4 and 6.3 on the Richter scale. At least 250 people were reported killed. -Edward Yeranian, VOA - 8/12/12
NIAC Urges SWIFT to Maintain Services for Humanitarian Causes in Iran
NIAC today sent a letter to the CEO of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), urging the international organization to maintain services for humanitarian causes in Iran. - 8/10/12
Study Identifies Stem Cells as Cancer Source
Scientists have found evidence that cancerous tumors might originate as stem cells - undifferentiated master cells which can grow into any tissue in the body. Investigators say if this proves true, it could provide a new way to prevent or cure cancer. - 8/5/12
Iran to build tubular centrifuge to use in pharmaceutical industry
Iran announced it will tackle the West sanctions by building a tubular centrifuge used in production of biotechnological medicine. - 8/4/12
NIAC, Coalition Urge Congress Not to Block Food and Medicine to Iran
NIAC joined the Friends Committee on National Legislation and nine other national organizations to urge the U.S. Congress to reject proposed sanctions legislation that would cut off humanitarian items to Iran, such as food, medicine, and family remittances. - 8/3/12
What Can Mississippi Learn From Iran?
One of the people responsible for HealthConnect's holistic, intensely personal approach is Dr. Aaron Shirley, who three years ago found inspiration for health care reform in an unlikely place: the primary health care system created in the 1980s in the Islamic Republic of Iran. -Suzy Hansen, NY Times - 8/3/12
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